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1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrations |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Sociolinguistics and poetics -- Deep dialogue with Evans-Pritchard -- In praise of the moral imagination -- Acrobatic stylistics, agonistic vision -- From tablet archive to wisdom seances -- Poetics and archives -- Family seances : rhetoric, deliberations, and decisions -- Cosmic and personal understandings : diviners, headmen, strangers -- From hooved archive to charismatic seances -- A charismatic diviner's archive : hooved divination -- The cross-over: originality, hybridity, and metamorphosis -- The charismatic seance : arguments, intimacy, and intimations -- Conclusion: in comparison. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Divination -- Africa, Southern.
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Fortune-telling -- Africa, Southern.
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Tswapong (African people) -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Werbner, Richard P. Divination's grasp : African encounters with the Almost Said. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2015] xii, 340 pages ; 23 cm 9780253018816 |
| ISBN |
9780253018816 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780253018892 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780253018953 (electronic bk.) |
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